First personal robocar

Tensor Auto in the US has developed the first driverless car for personal use with over 400 distributed ARM cores and eight NVIDIA GPUs for the self-driving systems. The ‘Robocar’ has a vertically integrated Level 4 autonomy stack, and a comprehensive...

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3D printing a motor

Researchers in the US are working on a platform that can produce a complete rotary motor in one pass with 3D printing. The team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has already developed a multi-material 3D-printing platform...

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Wireless power for UAV surveillance

UAV maker Arion is to use a wireless power system from GuRu Wireless to provide endurance for surveillance applications. This will enable the UAV from Arion in South Korea, previously known as rgblab, to stay airborne for over 96 hours...

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Using 5G for UAV detection

Ericsson has demonstrated the use of 5G technology to detect UAVs in flight. The live proof of concept integrates sensing and spatial location of passive objects into existing 5G mobile networks using 5G signals to sense the surroundings...

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Adversarial umbrella UAV attack

A vulnerability in camera systems allows a simple umbrella to control and even crash a UAV. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, discovered the security vulnerability in autonomous target-tracking UAVs and developed...

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DDS for underwater camera

Voyis is using a publish–subscribe protocol to simplify the integration of its underwater camera into autonomous craft. The Voyis Discovery and Observer Vision Systems use Real-Time Innovations (RTI) Connext as the underlying data...

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Video compression board adds AI

Antrica has integrated an AI accelerator onto a video encoder board to improve compression and reduce power for UAVs. The ANT-1776AI video encoder was designed specifically for UAV applications and adds the Hailo-8 accelerator...

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Co-simulation tackles driverless accidents

Developers in India have used a combination of simulation and an accident database that allows autonomous system behaviour to be exercised under controlled yet realistic conditions. The framework developed at Vayavya Labs uses...

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Autonomous platform for UAV launches

Quantum Systems has developed a UGV that can be used as a mobile launch pad for UAVs. The Mandrill UGV, based on an open, modular software suite called MOSAIC UXS, marks the beginning of a planned family...

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Swarm control

Scout AI has demonstrated orchestration software running a fleet of autonomous air and ground systems using natural language prompts. The Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator, which uses a Vision–Language–Action (VLA) foundation...

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